The parties seeking to build a new coalition government under Friedrich Merz are making slow progress in their negotiations.

The German parliament will likely pass a debt break exemption for defence spending on Tuesday. Freeing up the money is only ...

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...

The Greens have declared themselves ready to support the gigantic rearmament programme proposed by the incoming grand ...

The German parliament has voted in favour of a huge fiscal package and changes to the debt brake. Click to read.

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

But Merz, 69, whose conservative CDU/CSU alliance won an election last month, has urged swift action as concerns grow that the United States' decades-old commitment to European defence is ...

Merz, who is expected to become Germany's next chancellor after his CDU/CSU alliance ... to parliament, Merz cited Russia's ...